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Well said, and i love your user name. Happy Friday 🥂

This is terrifying. Also another case where the use of clinical language really grinds my gears. Sheriff said the 25-year-old died from "mechanical and positional asphyxia"... i get that's precisely what it's called but it also seems to create this rift between:

• a young man having a mental health crisis while in custody of police

and

• the police having direct responsibility for this outcome

It's like: the guy was there, the cops were there, mechanical and positional asphyxia took place, the man died. A room full of cops and they can't figure out exactly what happened? Jesus fucking Christ

That's the thing--the actual purpose of the appliances hasn't changed at all. Every "advancement" is typically proprietary tech made to help comply with energy and water/gas usage standards--or to add perceived value through some half-baked gimmicks. For instance, dishwashers use smaller pumps run for longer periods of time to perform the same amount of work a larger more powerful pump could handle (in many cases a single pump sufficed for a dishwasher--one rotational direction for wash, opposite direction for drain)... I'm totally on board with energy efficiency but the laughably cheap/shitty tech they use to those ends kinda blunt the effectiveness of the energy saving measures (since replacing parts--or more likely entire dishwashers when those pumps fail--is a less energy-saving process than having a stronger, more durable pump that draws an extra amp or 2)

Some of my all-time favorite music. They are a massive influence in my taste in music...It had never occurred to me that nostalgia could be induced by 'foreign' (unfamiliar may be the better word) music, and for a place/time that may never have even existed or may be misremembered or jumbled with other memories. It's strange what music can do, how it can make you feel, think, see... They also showed me how ominous electronic music can sound, how much of a landscape can be painted with sound. I love all their albums, and getting to experience the release of Tomorrow's Harvest was a treat.

This is the second time I've seen BoC pop up in the past 2 days day (edit, lol). I swear, the one good thing that's come about in the past couple years has been this place. Thank you all for being here and participating!

Love how all this cost cutting is apparently going to be redirected to our military. We don't spend nearly enough on that 🫠

Sarah Huckabee Sanders when she was press secretary, and now she's [checks notes]... Governor of Arkansas.

That's not all! She recently had to beg Trump for federal aid following a series of devastating tornadoes tearing up Arkansas. He denied her the aid. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/sarah-sanders-arkansas-storms-b2738058.html

One of the neighbors a ¼ mile away from one of these mega mining facilities said they are reading noise levels between 80-100 decibels daily. Imagine some prick opened a giant loud energy sucking machine that's strictly there to produce profit for them. Nothing tangible beyond that. I just can't fucking imagine how furious i would be if i was that guy

And that made it easy for other billion dollar companies like Ticketmaster and LiveNation to do the same thing in other realms--simply buy the laws, buy the politicians, buy the system that's supposed to regulate them, and then use that system to remove all competition.

Most notably, actual competition -- a supposedly great boon of capitalism that drives up value for the customer -- nowhere to be found in that formula. This is the exact same path i believe we watch every successful product or service eventually take.

But how much will we charge them to seek asylum? 🥴

Any particular ones to be aware of?

Funny thing is, i agree that free healthcare absolutely should be a right. I have voted and will continue to vote for any candidates that support it. I'm just disenfranchised at this point. I will continue to vote, but I've seen little/no good come of it.

Enjoy that sourdough!! I have always wanted to get into baking bread. I will eventually get there someday. The semolina my local bakery makes is 😗🤌 i love bread

It's not the legislation I'm worried about, it's the enforcement 🫠

I like the whole fund free healthcare idea but realistically just about all the $ coming in from drug sales would go directly into Leon's pocket or whoever tf

And the leaks keep coming, he(gset)h.

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As pointed out elsewhere around these comments, this looks like another classic example of enshittification. Just like everything that's invented, it often starts out with a fairly solid design--it couldn't succeed without that. Once the success is captured, they can start dissecting the design and figure out what parts can be made with cheaper materials (common example: replacing metal w/plastic) and/or cheaper tech. From that point it's iterations of further cuts to material and tech until it's the cheapest, flimsiest version that can still function well enough to outlast the warranty. I've been in my field long enough (appliance repair) to see generations come and go and it often runs that route. Sometimes design flaws get fixed during the process, but rarely does the product itself get better or more durable in the long run.

I really hope trump pulled one of those surprise handshake-tugs he was doing back in the day, lol

Wow, I'm glad to see something actually happen. Good for her, not backing down and standing up for her children's rights. That's a great mom!

Edit: and what a bunch of slimy fucking shits to drag a woman physically out of a town hall for calling a bunch of cowards out. They proved their cowardice with that response.